Arlyn invited us to brunch at Strictly Pancakes, a place that serves all day breakfasts. This was going to be her birthday treat and our last food trip before Yves heads off to Japan. It was raining so heavily that I though we wouldn’t push through but luckily I managed to book a cab through my iphone app and passed by Arlyn’s place to fetch her before heading to 44A Prinsep Street, the restaurant’s location.
As its name connotes, the place serves only pancakes, and they serve it with everything they could think of. We decided to order one savoury pancake each and then split a sweet one for dessert. Here’s what we had. The descriptions were copied off the menu.
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| Snuggle Up ($13) Tasty hotdogs snugly tucked within pancakes, drizzled with maple syrup and mushy peas on the side for a quick satisfying fix |
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| Salmon Run ($14) Savoury slices of premium smoked salmon topped with dill sour-cream and a wedge of lemon |
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| Garlic Buttered Prawns ($14) Medium stack served with prawns buttered generously with garlic and cherry tomato salad on the side for an aromatic, mouth-watering treat |
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| Beef Me Up ($14) Super thick juicy home-made beef patty flanked by extra thick pancakes with sauteed mushrooms and a side of arugula salad |
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| Bananas-Scotched ($10) Caramelised bananas sizzled in a pan with a dash of rum drizzled over a medium stack, served with a generous scoop of vanilla ice cream |
Our collective verdict was that the first one was our favorite in the bunch, perhaps because it was the most normal of them all; hotdogs and pancakes really belong together after all. Its presentation was also really creative, so it gets points for that too (what is this, Top Chef?). Betchie liked the pea salad that it came with as well. The salmon one was okay, but nothing special. I’m a huge fan of garlic buttered anything, so I loved my plate of prawns. Betchie thought it was “makaumay” though, or she easily got fed up with the taste. I’m not a fan of beef per se, that’s why I didn’t really like the fourth one, though I give it points for presentation; the pancakes it came with were shaped to look like burger buns. Yves loved the beef, though, saying that it was juicy and not too salty. Overall, though, we all agreed that the strange combination of fluffy pancakes mixed with main meals and drizzled with maple syrup and butter strangely worked. The last one is a typical pancake and we loved it but we were too full to finish it, or all our other orders, actually. Not one of us had breakfast but we all had about one pancake each left on our plates. I would probably go back to try the druggie (chocolate pancakes) next time.
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| the mouseketeers’ last food trip in Singapore |
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